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Federal Tipoffs Involving Arkansas Newsletter for Saturday April 20, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Ark. U.S. Attorney: Two Former Arkansas Sheriff's Deputies Plead Guilty to Federal Civil Rights
FORT SMITH, Arkansas, April 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas issued the following news release: Two former Crawford County, Arkansas, sheriff's deputies, Levi White, 34, and Zackary King, 28, pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses for using unlawful force on a man they arrested. "The videos from this incident are a shocking display of the violent deprivation of civil rights committed by these officers," said U.S. Attorney Clay Fowlkes for the   more

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Announces New Investments in Nature-Based Solutions in Lower Mississippi River Valley as Part of President Biden's Investing in America Agenda
ATLANTA, Georgia, April 19 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today the selection of nature-based solutions projects in the Lower Mississippi River Valley (LMRV) for forestry and wetland restoration across more than 63,100 acres of national wildlife refuges and state-managed lands in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. These projects, totaling over   more